At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the PESTEL (political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental) technique to analyse a business or industry and make an informed decision
• Discuss Porter’s five forces technique to analyse the competition of a company
• Explain the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis technique to analyse a business and set strategies and plans for the future
• Summarize the results of three techniques and compile a winning business plan
• Identify the nature of enterprise risks and indicate the importance of the leading causes of business risks
• Explain how to write a solid plan to mitigate risk and identify different types of strategies
• Identify your company’s risks at a departmental level
• Discuss a business plan to alleviate and control risks
• Paraphrase quick advice tips to help when dealing with enterprise risks

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the different types of budgets
• Discuss characteristics of business budgeting
• Explain the benefits of business budgeting
• Identify how you can use budgets to measure the performance of companies
• Explain the process of writing a solid budget or plan
• Identify a company's weak points and the process for addressing them
• Discuss how a business budget can be used to enhance performance
• Outline important tips for evaluating corporate performances

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define ‘mergers’ and ‘acquisitions’ 
• Discuss their legal aspects
• Outline the friendly types of mergers and acquisitions
• Highlight hostile takeovers and provide strategies to resist them
• Lay out the different pre- and post-acquisition steps
• Identify the multiple synergies and benefits of mergers and acquisitions
• Discuss the modes of payment and financial considerations of the deal

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe important accounting principles and assumptions
• Discuss how to apply the ‘accrual’ principle
• Explain how to apply the ‘conservatism’ principle
• Summarise the important points and sections of the ‘consistency’ principle
• Identify the nature and importance of the ‘historic cost’ principle 
• Explain how to abide by and apply the ‘full disclosure’ principle
• Identify the value of the ‘going concern’ principle
• Discuss the importance of the ‘matching’ and ‘monetary unit’ principles
• Outline tips used to deal with reliability and revenue recognition principles
• Describe how corporate social responsibility (CSR) relates to accounting principles

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe business process reengineering plans and strategies
• Discuss the benefits of a business process reengineering plan on making companies resilient
• Explain what business process flowcharts are
• Summarize the requirements and steps of business process mapping
• Identify the uses and aids of the draw.io application
• Explain the relationship between business process flowcharts and compliance
• Identify real-life examples of successful business process reengineering plans 
• Discuss practical steps for applying a business process reengineering plan 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss how ISO 22301 can help corporations meet their legal requirements
• Explain how to implement ISO 22301 step by step
• Identify the consequences of neglecting ISO 22301 on business performance
• Define the basic terms used in the standard and explain how to apply them
• Categorize the ISO 22301 mandatory requirements
• Explain how a business impact analysis identifies potential threats
• Outline the different stages of conducting a business impact analysis
• Analyze how ISO 22301 works
• Describe the advantages of various ISO 22301 clauses
• Outline the benefits of ISO 22301
• Identify those to whom ISO 22301 applies and discuss why it relates to them

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the nature of enterprise risks and indicate the importance of the leading causes of business risks
• Explain how to write a solid plan to mitigate the risks and identify the different types of strategies
• Describe the main types of risks your company might face
• Discuss a business plan to alleviate and control your risks
• Paraphrase quick advice tips to help your managers when dealing with enterprise risks
• Analyze the nature and types of enterprise risks
• Apply the ISO 31000 framework in your company
• Classify the available risk assessment techniques
• Compare the risk treatment strategies and apply the best ones
• Define the human causes of business risk
• Categorize the different risk attitudes and appetite
• Identify your company’s overall risks at a departmental level

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply proficiency in navigating the Excel interface
• Discuss how to input and format data efficiently using cells and ranges
• Apply skills in using basic formulas and functions for calculations
• Combine techniques for cleaning and preprocessing raw data, including handling missing values and outliers
• Analyze statistical functions for data analysis, such as AVERAGE, COUNT, SUM, and more
• Illustrate various types of charts and graphs to visually represent data
• Explain advanced Excel functions such as VLOOKUP & HLOOKUP
• Identify PivotTables for dynamic data analysis
• Outline techniques for data filtering, sorting, and grouping to extract meaningful information
• Create PivotTables for dynamic data analysis and understand how to use PivotCharts to visually represent summarized data